Question about Little Big Horn/Custer book

[Rob2020]

About thirty years ago I read a very early book about Custer and the Little Big Horn battle. I would like to find that book again, but I don't remember the title or author, and I'm not even sure it had the name 'Custer' in the title. By "early" I mean real early, as in possibly 1870's early, within just a couple or few years of the event. I vaguely remember it was hardcover with possibly a brown colored binding.

There are countless book about this event, so I wouldn't know where or how to start a search, but since there are many history buffs who are very famioliar with this event, I wondering whether there's someone here who might have a clue as to what book this might be.

Is there a way to do a book search somewhere that falls within a range of years of publication?

[Vacillator]

On 12/24/2023 at 7:24 AM, Rob2020 said:

within just a couple or few years of the event

So likely a biased and inaccurate account ? 

I googled but as you say there are a lot of books on the subject.  If you ask a specialist book shop, like for example https://www.foyles.co.uk/ here in the UK, they may be able to source it, given enough info - like more than a brown binding .

[Rob2020]

5 hours ago, Vacillator said:

So likely a biased and inaccurate account ? 

Yeah, I get your point, but that can work both ways. Sometimes the earlier accounts coming from people with more direct knowledge are better, without some historian's bias thrown in a hundred years later.

I do remember it was a very interesting read and other than that it's not an important issue to me.

Hmm, it was a book from an Air Force Base library, and since libraries often carry the same material maybe I should just check my local one to see what comes up. I also posted my query to a discussion thread at Consimworld, since there are a more varied interests there, so maybe some Custer afficionado will know something. Whatever, no big deal.

Edit: Heck, it's probably Boots and Saddles, by his wife, Elizabeth Custer, which according to her Wikipedia page was first published in 1885, so that fits. And the 1961 edition has a brown hardcover binding. I was aware of the book, but didn't think that was it, but it must be.

Edited December 26, 2023 by Rob2020